Any finding, determination, conclusion, declaration, or final order made by the commissioner, or his or her representative or delegate, or by an appeal tribunal, administrative law judge, reviewing officer, or other agent of the department for the purposes of Title 50 RCW, shall not be conclusive, nor binding, nor admissible as evidence in any separate action outside the scope of Title 50 RCW between an individual and the individual's present or prior employer before an arbitrator, court, or judge of this state or the United States, regardless of whether the prior action was between the same or related parties or involved the same facts or was reviewed pursuant to RCW 50.32.120.
RCW 50.32.097
Applicability of finding, determination, etc., to other action.
Known as the Employment Security Act
The act spans §§ 50.01.005 to 50.98.110 (395 sections).
Applied in 11 court decisions — leading case Christensen v. Grant County Hosp. Dist. (2004)
Most recently applied in Smith v. EMPLOYMENT SECURITY DEPT. (March 2010)
1988 c 28 s 1.
How often courts cite this section
Court decisions citing this, by year. The dip in the last several years is a data-coverage gap, not a real trend — our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so recent citations are undercounted.
Official source: Washington State Legislature. Reproduced from public-domain Washington statutes; confirm against the official source for the current text. Not legal advice.